Woodbridge Junior School
Happy Children Inspired to Learn
Autumn Term 1
Hedgehogs 2025-2026
Week 6 13/10/2025 The excitement never ends in Hedgehogs! This week some of the children have been brave enough to take their bikes on the road for Bikeability. The children all respresented our school wonderfully, kept to the rules of the road, showed aspiration and resilience, too! On Wednesday we took part in the Beat the Streets launch. We used maps to help us find clues. The clues helped us to spell a word and the children worked wonderfully as a team. In class we have been practising our clay skills in art, learning about how websites are ranked in computing and we were amazed by the plot twist in our English readining book, Robot Girl! A great week - well done, Hedgehogs!
Our trip to Twycross Zoo! 9.10.2025
Week 4 - 29.9.25 What a busy week we've had in Hedgehogs! We have started a new unit of writing, focusing on the book 'Robot Girl' by Malorie Blackman. It has opened up so interesting debates regarding AI and the children have used modal verbs to make their speeches persuasive. In Geography, we were learning about different biomes, using atlas to locate countries and their biomes. We found it interesting how some countries have more than one biome. On Tuesday, as part of our athletics topic in PE, we were practising different throwing techniques (chest throw and over arm). We then used these to practise throwing howlers and basket balls, seeing how far we could thrown them. In art, we learnt about historical sculptors, looking at the sculptures previous made to give us ideas for out, which we will make in the coming weeks. Finally, we finished the school week with the success of getting 100% for both Fantastic Four and TT20 - Well done, Hedgehogs!
Week 3 - 22/09/25 This week we made pirates for the upcoming Art festival in Alfreton. We had great fun making them, using a range of materials and being creative.
Week 1 8.9.25 We've had a great first week in Hedgehogs. This week we have used some art skills to create drawings of plants. In science, we have made cuttings and planted them to see if they are asexual. In Maths we have continued to develop our knowledge of place value of numbers to 1,000,000. A great week - well done Hedgehogs!
Design and Technology 24.10.2024 - we have loved making our chicken skewers today. We chopped up our chicken and vegetables and thought carefully about the spices we wanted to use. Later we tasted and evaluated our products. It was a great DT day.
22.10.2024 we have been working so hard to write our journey stories up this week. We can't wait to invite parents and family members in to read our stories to you. They are amazing!
Design Technology 21.10.24 today we designed our chicken skewer. We can't wait to make them on Thursday.
Art 15.10.24 we used our clay the unique to help us create tropical plant sculptures using clay. We were so impressed with the finished outcome and we can't wait to show them when they have dried.
�� Rainbow Grammar �� 14.10.24 today we used rainbow grammar cards to punctuate speech.
14.10.24 we loved going on the new trim trail today!
Art 10.10.24 today we practiced using clay skills to help us create sculptures using clay. We can't wait to create our final product next week.
Computing 8.10.24 today we designed our own website and looked at how search engines rank websites based on a point system. We used the system to improve the ranking of our web pages.
Geography 7.10.24 Today we used information gathered and research to compare the Amazon Rainforest to Rio de Janerio. It was so interesting learning about the physical and human features.
3.10.24 Today we learnt how to become better partners by asking questions to find out information about each other. We were developing our listening and speaking skills. It was great fun.
Maths 1.10.24 we have been learning how to use pictorial and abstract methods to add numbers with more than four digits.
Geography 30.9.24 Today we have been learning about the different biomes that make up our world. We were interested to learn that deserts can be hot and cold places. We also learnt that the tundra biome covers 1/5 of the Earth.
English 25.9.24 We have started our independent write today. We are creating non-chronological reports on hedgehogs. We can't wait to share these with you.
Computing 24.09.2024 we have looked at different search engines and how effective they are at giving us the information we need to find. We concluded that Google and Bing search engines are more reliable than the others used.
Geography 23.09.2024 Today we have been learning about biomes and the different layers of the rainforest. We then carried out research to find out which plants and animals live in the different layers.
20.9.24 Our Woodbridge Value award winners for aspiration
Art 19.9.24 Today we used the sketching skills we developed last week to sketch plants. We enjoyed practising with the different techniques used.
Rainbow Grammar 18.9.24 We have been practising identifying subordinating conjunctions and writing adverbial clauses.
English 17.9.24 Today we have enjoyed learning new facts about Hedgehogs. We are going to use these facts to help us write a non-chronological report.
P.E 17.9.24 Another great lesson on the gym equipment. We really enjoyed getting our heart rate up and pushing ourselves to get stronger and fitter.
Handwriting 16.9.24 Today we have been practising our joins. We find handwriting really calms us down and we are all striving to get a pen licence, showing pride in our letter formation.
Art 12.9.24 we have really enjoyed exploring different techniques used to create light and tone.
Our first Y5 forest school session 11.9.24
PE 10.9.24 we've enjoyed completing circuit training on the gym equipment.
PE 10.9.24
PE 10.9.24
Our first day in Hedgehogs 6.9.24
